Unpaid debts

A man has been murdered at a Vietnam casino, supposedly over a $3,000 unpaid gambling debt. The victim was reportedly a Chinese man and was murdered at the Moc Bai casino on Saturday. Local and provincial police have been conducting investigations into the murder that took place in a region close to the Vietnam-Cambodia border.

the alleged murderer is a supplier of construction materials

The alleged murderer is a supplier of construction materials, Zhu Jun Sheng. Five local police officers went to the scene following the incident, though only two of them managed to gain e

Well-known Cardiff restaurant

Some food lovers in the Welsh city of Cardiff rated the little restaurant Chutney Roti in Whitchurch Road as “hands down the best Indian restaurant in Cardiff.” However, its owner recently received a nine-year bankruptcy restriction for making bogus COVID-19 claims based on the establishment.

blew the lion’s share of around £43,000 ($51,609)

As the Insolvency Service shared via Twitter at the beginning of the month, Rathudi Mahesh Manglanand blew the lion’s share of around £43,000 ($51,609) in bogus COVID-19 claims on gambling and drinking:

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In the small European nation of Lithuania and parliamentarians have reportedly approved measures that are to waive the existing requirement for locally-licensed online gambling operators to maintain a domiciled business presence within the country. According to a Monday report from a source, members of the 141-seat Seimas recently approved amendments to the Baltic nation’s Gambling Law and […]

Online poker providers like GGPoker work hard to ensure that players have access to a safe and regulated gaming environment. One part of this is to regulate members of a poker room to ensure the integrity of cash games and tournaments. According to a recent report by PokerNews, GGPoker has decided to take action and […]

In South Korea and local casino operator Paradise Company Limited has reportedly announced that its aggregated gross gaming revenues for June dropped by 16.5% year-on-year to approximately $10.15 million. According to a report from Inside Asian Gaming, the figure for this 30-day period equated to a month-on-month decline of 21.8% and came despite the nation’s earlier move to ease […]

Further extending its reach in Latin America and multi-product content provider Pragmatic Play has signed a supply agreement with sports betting and online casino operator Pálpitos in Argentina. The latest in a series of deals in South America, the collaboration will see the provider’s rapidly-growing slots portfolio go live on palpitos.com.ar, where the operator‘s customers […]

Crown Resorts already paid AU$80 million (US$57.5 million) for breaking the rules in Victoria, but may have to pay more. The Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission (VGCCC) is launching a new probe that could cost the casino operator as much as AU$100 million (US$68.25 million).

Victoria conducted an inquiry into Crown’s Crown

Spain is in the process of tightening gambling regulations, but isn’t going to ridiculous extremes with its controls. As a result, it is finding increased interest from casino operators, and the latest is a new venue coming to Alicante.

Spanish gaming and hospitality company Acrismatic Group held a ceremony for its new Casino Mediterráneo (Mediterranean Casino) property yesterday. The venue is in the Alicante city of Ondara, w

Macau continues to be unable to rid itself of COVID-19 and, at the rate it’s going, doesn’t have an easy way out. The number of positive cases is on the rise in the casino hub, despite major efforts to quell a new outbreak.

On Monday, there were 852 COVID-19 patients in the city, an increase of 68 from the day before. At the time, that was a good sign, as it was a decline of 90 new cases from Sunday.

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Legislative ban inbound

The English Premier League (EPL) has urged its teams to phase out front-of-shirt sponsorship agreements with gambling comanies. League officials believe that a legislative ban could be inbound unless they take the drastic action.

phase out front-of-shirt betting sponsorship within three years

According to a Sky News report on Monday, the EPL has asked its 20 top-flight franchises to agree to phase out the deals within three years. The media source quotes one franchise executive confirming that the deadline for responding to the EPL is “just days.”

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